To the Editor of the upheavals in polit I can fully sympathize with our Prime Minister who, regardless of he do or say, will be bility is such It is, whole "NonrH-DIMNA Dany News" your advertising columns last few days a so-called Proclamation" has appeared, it being left to the imagination of your readers to guess whence or by whom this pronunciamiento originated, as Furthermore, there are three gross solecisms which, if the announcement is made by, or for, the S.M.C, are unpardonable, as we expect precision at least from our high-salaried officials, The present scribe would be glad to learn upon what authority the expression "International Settlement" is used when Foreign Settlement is the correct designation of this little bit of Heaven.
That this contention is correct is borne out by the title of the official "Municipal Gazette," the subcaption of which publication is:—"Of the Council for the Foreign Settlement of Shanghai In view of certain "Spokesman-like" pleasantries, anent a possible occupation, of the entire Foreign Settlemer.t it might be as well, to save trouble in the future, for the British authorities to best them-see: embroideries of China," -by Carl Schuster, ASIA, Jan., 1937, p. selves and announce without any ambiguity, the inviolable right of Britain to that portion of the Settlement, rights which have never been relinquished, which formed the original "English Settlement of Shanghae, even though the rest of the foreign-controlled area was gracefully relinquished in accordance with the tenets of latter-day umbrella diplomacy.
SAMURAI.
Shanghai, May 13. ive material may, of in books on Chinese ind but it is usually not on methods of manu-0 foundations. a specialized field,
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